{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chen C"],"funding":["Natural Environment Research Council","European Commission"],"pagination":["62"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC5333402"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["17(1)"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Background</h4>Extreme environments prompt the evolution of characteristic adaptations. Yet questions remain about whether radiations in extreme environments originate from a single lineage that masters a key adaptive pathway, or if the same features can arise in parallel through convergence. Species endemic to deep-sea hydrothermal vents must accommodate high temperature and low pH. The most successful vent species share a constrained pathway to successful energy exploitation: hosting symbionts. The vent-endemic gastropod genus Gigantopelta, from the Southern and Indian Oceans, shares unusual features with a co-occurring peltospirid, the 'scaly-foot gastropod' Chrysomallon squamiferum. Both are unusually large for the clade and share other adaptive features such as a prominent enlarge"],"journal":["BMC evolutionary biology"],"pubmed_title":["By more ways than one: Rapid convergence at hydrothermal vents shown by 3D anatomical reconstruction of Gigantopelta (Mollusca: Neomphalina)."],"pmcid":["PMC5333402"],"funding_grant_id":["H2020-MSCA-IF-2014-655661","NE/DO1249X/1","bas0100036"],"pubmed_authors":["Linse K","Uematsu K","Chen C","Sigwart JD"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"By more ways than one: Rapid convergence at hydrothermal vents shown by 3D anatomical reconstruction of Gigantopelta (Mollusca: Neomphalina).","description":"<h4>Background</h4>Extreme environments prompt the evolution of characteristic adaptations. Yet questions remain about whether radiations in extreme environments originate from a single lineage that masters a key adaptive pathway, or if the same features can arise in parallel through convergence. Species endemic to deep-sea hydrothermal vents must accommodate high temperature and low pH. The most successful vent species share a constrained pathway to successful energy exploitation: hosting symbionts. The vent-endemic gastropod genus Gigantopelta, from the Southern and Indian Oceans, shares unusual features with a co-occurring peltospirid, the 'scaly-foot gastropod' Chrysomallon squamiferum. Both are unusually large for the clade and share other adaptive features such as a prominent enlarge","dates":{"release":"2017-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2017 Mar","modification":"2026-06-14T08:52:36.732Z","creation":"2026-06-14T03:17:17.101Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC5333402","cross_references":{"pubmed":["28249568"],"doi":["10.1186/s12862-017-0917-z"]}}